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Republican governor’s right-wing record could pose a roadblock to effort to win moderate voters Why Florida’s new curriculum on slavery is becoming a political headache for Ron DeSantis Skip ...
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, facing heavy criticism for defending “anti-woke” teaching in Florida, this week teed up an unusual proposal to the nation's first Black vice president: Come debate ...
The Florida Board of Education passed new standards for teaching Black history in public schools Teachers enraged that Florida’s new Black history standards say slaves could ‘benefit’ Skip ...
"This is one more part of a fact pattern of Ron DeSantis being mean and hateful," the former Texas representative said in an interview on "Meet the Press."
Slavery in Florida occurred among indigenous tribes and during Spanish rule. Florida's purchase by the United States from Spain in 1819 (effective 1821) was primarily a measure to strengthen the system of slavery on Southern plantations, by denying potential runaways the formerly safe haven of Florida. Florida became a slave state, seceded, and ...
In his 1860 speech "The Constitution of the United States: is it pro-slavery or anti-slavery?", Frederick Douglass cites the Notes of Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787 left behind by James Madison in order to describe four provisions of the Constitution that are said to be pro-slavery. In examining the history of how the clauses were ...
[8] This was a reference to Roger Taney's view that the Constitution was pro-slavery, [9] which was the view of most lawyers at the time. Douglass articulated his belief that the "great national enactment done by the people ... can only be altered, amended, or added to by the people," and that the ambiguity of many of its clauses leaned against ...
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